Last week Genealogy Today announced the release of a new subscription genealogy database - Family Tree Connection. I had an opportunity to play with the new database this week and ... Read More

Several times each day this question (or a variation) arrives in my mailbox. Sometimes it is from a woman who is getting married and wants to learn more about the ... Read More

Elias Abodeely, of Cedar Rapids, IA, has been given three years of probation for scamming genealogists out of thousands of dollars. If he stays out of trouble, his record will ... Read More

As I opened my genealogy software this morning to add my brand-new nephew, Michael (born yesterday), to my family tree, it got me thinking. We spend a lot of time ... Read More

Imagine discovering the tombstone of a long-ago ancestor and being able to read, see and even hear details of their life and family. Imagine whipping out your handheld computer or ... Read More

Six new stand-alone software programs have just been released under the For Dummies(R) license, including Family Tree For Dummies(R). The package includes a genealogy software program for creating and charting ... Read More

Larry King, world-famous radio and television personality, often asks celebrities questions all of us have pondered: How would you like to be remembered after your death? What would you like ... Read More

If you have not yet registered for the 2004 NGS Conference in the States, to be held 19-22 May, in Sacramento, California, this is your opportunity to take advantage of an extended ... Read More

I received an email from a reader this weekend who wanted to let me know that Legacy Family Tree was "no longer offering the free download to their program." Of ... Read More

The Italian Genealogical Group has just posted a searchable index to New York City deaths from 1891 to 1911 - a FREE database containing over 1,400,000 records. The NYC ... Read More